Phonograph.



E. OPFERKUCK &*J. PFEIFER.

PHONOGRAPH.

APPLICATION YILED AUG.19,19H 1.,1'788'7 1. Patented Apr. 11,1916.

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E. OPFERKUCK 1&1. PFEIFER.

PHONQGHAPH.

APPLICATION msn AuG.19.19x1.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

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al 'ifi' \\"7lllllllll1 N11/1110111- EMIL OPEERKUCK AND JOHN PEEIFER, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNORS T0 AMERICAN GRAPI-IOPI-IONE COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A

CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

IHONOGRAPH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1I, 11916.

Application led August 19, 1911. Serial No. 644,984.

acter it has been usual to employ memor an' dum sheets, each sheet having printed thereon a scale corresponding to a scale on the phonograph, upon which sheets the dictator may note certain instructions and corrections, this memorandum sheet being turned over to the transcriber as a guide in transcribing the record. In making nota'- `tions on this memorandum sheet it has been necessary for the dictator to first note the position of the pointer on the scale of the 4phonograph, locate the corresponding indication on the scale of the memorandum sheet, and then make his notation on such memorandum sheet. In doing this error is liable to occur.

The object ofthe present invention is to simplify the making of these memorandum instructions and also to obviate all danger of mistake on the part 'of the dictator by relieving him .of the necessity. of taking note of the proper indication both on the scale'of the phonograph and the scale of the memorandum sheet; also to make more.

simple and intelligible memoranda for the transcriber. v

The invention consistsof the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions, one of which is shown in thev accomf panying drawings, for the purpose of illustration.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a phonograph of a well known t pe with our improvements applied tgereto. Fig. 2 is a section on the line m-m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of on the line y-y of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 7 is a detail in perspective of. one ofthe clip's for holding the memorandum strip. Fig. 8 is a detail of the type-segment rock shaft, showing the arrangement of its graduated projections.

Like parts are indicated by similar cha-racters of reference in the several views.

In the said drawings, 1 represents 'a port1on of the motor inclosing casing of a phonograph yof a well known type, to the upper side of which is secured the metallic base plate 2 upon which are supported some of the working parts 'of the device, which may be briefly described as follows: Located in the bearing support 3 isa shaft 4 to which is secured the usual mandrel- 5 which receives the record tablet 6; the shaft being arranged to be thrown into and out of engagement with a continuously rotating pulley 7 which receives its motion from 4the combined type, and receives its sliding movement on said slide rod from the screw 10 located in said rod in a manner that is well known and need not be described in detail here, this screw being geared to the shaft 4, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,

so as to rotate therewith.

In the type of machine illustrated here, it has been usual to employ a scale, which has been attached to some part' of the machine, and over which moves a pointer carv riedby the recorder and reproducer; the scale having suitable indications so that the dictator may indicate on the memorandum sheet the position of the recorder relatively to the record. The present invention provides improved means 'for accomplishing the same result with superior accuracy, since it eliminates to a very large extent the liability to error.

13 represents a U-shaped frame having a downwardly exten-ding arm 14: terminating in a two-part clamping collar 15 by means of which the frame is attached to the recorder and reproducer carriage. In the particular machine shown in thel drawings, the

manner of attachment is by clamping the two-part collar to an extension 16 ot' the sleeve of the recorder and reproducer carriage which slides on the rod 8. l

Journaled in the U-shaped frame 13 is a rock-shaft 17, having secured to one end thereof, just outside the frame, a type segment 18, having thereon type representing a series of characters such as Tel for telegram, Rsh7 for rush, Cor for correction, Can for cancel, Fin for inish, 1 fand 2 for the number of copies required and any other characters which it may be found desirable and necessary to employ to convey proper instructions to the transcriber. Journaled on the shaft 19, also .supported in the U-shaped frame, is a series of key-levers 20, one key-lever for each character represented upon the type-segvment, the several key-levers having provided respectively thereon characters corresponding to the characters on the type segment 18. Secured to the rock-shaft 17 is a series of collars 22, onelfor each key-lever. Each of these collars isv arranged adjacent its corresponding key-lever and carries a projecting stud 23, lying in the path of a projection .24 on the. key-lever. No two of the studs 23 lie in the same horizontal plane, and preferably they are arranged with the highest stud at one end and the lowest stud at the other end, with the intervening studs in gradually decreasing lower planes from the highest to the lowest, as shown in Fig. 8. But it is apparent that the studs mayv occupy any other desired order of arrangement, it being essential only that the several `studs lie in dierent horizontal planes. The collars 22 are preferably secured to the shaft by set-screws as shown so that they may be accurately adjusted.

Locatedzbeneath the series of keys is a swinging plate or frame 26, pivoted at its rear end to the cross rod 27, and projecting downwardly from each key-lever is a linger 28, adapted, when the key-lever is depressed, to strike this plate and swing it downwardly; these lingers 28 being also adapted to act as stops against which the studs 23 strike to prevent overthrow of the typesegment.

Pivoted to a downwardly-'extending portion 29 of the main frame is a platen bar 30 having loosely inserted in an aperture at one end thereof an upwardly-extending rod 31 which normally lies just beneath the swinging plate 26 so that when said plate is depressed it will depress one end of the platen bar 30 and force the opposite end carrying the platen 30 upwardly to cause an impression to be made upon the memorandum slip; the platen 30 and plate 26 being returned to their normal positions by the spring 32, and the type-segment to its normal position by the spring 40. Coil springs 41 are also provided for the keylevers to return said levers to normal positending across the machine just above the support 11 and under the type segment 18; an inked ribbon 38, on roll 39 being fed between the type segment and paper strip in any well known manner; said paper strip is held in position by the spring clips 36. These clips are S-shaped as shown in Fig. 7 and are slipped over the supporting strip 11 at the respective 'endsthereot `After the record has been completed the paper strip 33 is drawn outwardly and torn 0E on the knife edge projection 37 which projects from one of the clips. rlhe torn-olf slip is then placedin the transcribers machine which is provided with similar clips 36-to receive the same, care being exercised of course to have the paper strip occupy the same position relatively to the record roll as it did in the dictators machine. Of course, iljV the same machine is used both .for dictating and transcribing, it would be unnecessary to remove the memorandum strip until the record has been transcribed. It will be understood that the transcriber simply moves the reproducer head until the pointer points to the character on the printed strip to locate the desired 4place on the record.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In a phonograph, a recorder; a record receiver; a printing device in fixed relation with said recorder, said printing device comprising a type carrying member, carryinga series of type characters representing diferent instructions, a series of keys for operating said type carrying member, a paper strip, and means whereby the operation of any one of said keys causes the character to be printed on said strip corresponding to the key operated. f

2. ln a phonograph, a traveling recorder and reproducer, a revoluble record receiver over which said recorder and reproducer travels, a pointer on said recorder and reproducer, a paper strip over which said pointer travels, and a series of printing devices in fixed relation Qwith said recorder and reproducer, said prlnting devices comprising a series of keys and a type carrying member together with devices operated by said keys for causing an impression to be printed on said paper strip corresponding .to the key operated.

3. In a phonograph, a recorder, a record receiver, and a memorandum-receiving strip arranged on said phonograph; in combination with a printing mechanism, said printing mechanism comprising a swinging typecarrying member, a` rock-shaft to which said member is operatively connected, a series of key-levers, projections on said shaft arranged at varying distances around the same, a projection on each of said key-le Vers corresponding to said shaft projections and adaptedto contact the same to rock said shaft a distance corresponding to the key operated, a pivoted platen, a swinging plate under said key-levers having an operative connection with said platen, and a finger on veach of said key-levers to swing said plate upon the depression of its key, said fingers, in the depressed positions of said keys,'be ing adapted to lie in the path of said shaft projections to prevent overthrow of said type member.

4. In a phonograph, a sound recorder, a Y

sound record receiver, a memorandum-receiving member, and a printing mechanism; said printing mechanism comprising a typecarrying member and a series of keys, a.

5. In a talking machine, a rotatable record carrier and a traveling sound box car,- rlage 1n comblnation with a stationary memorandum-sheet holder, a supporting bracket on said carriage, printing instrumentalities connected with said bracket and j moved by the carriage in juxtaposition to the memorandum-sheet holder, and manually operated means on said bracket to' operate Vsaid printinginstrumentalities.

In testimony whereof, We have lhereunto set our hands this 15th day of August 1911.

EMIL OPFERKUCK. 4JOI-IN PFEIFER. Witrsses:I W

HAS. c' E 0H, OLIVER T. 

